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[bodysong]

@Colin72856945 attracted Ted Cruz's attention

The original tweet that caught Cruz’s eye came from a nearly brand new
Twitter account, @Colin72856945:

Fading after 1 wash

(pic of theT-shirt that mocks Ted Cruz)

— Colin (@Colin72856945) May 6, 2021

Ted Cruz re-tweeted Colin's post and the pic of Colin's T-shirt

Ted Cruz ✓
Twitter › tedcruz

Probably made in China.

8 hours ago

What is printed on the T-shirt ?

"...text reading “Politics in the front. Insurrection in the back.”

Mediaite's take on this event-
Ted Cruz Outs Himself as Thirstiest Dude on Twitter While Merchandising a T-Shirt
That Owns Him

"...the search field that revealed what Cruz was really doing on Twitter."

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ted...-while-merchandising-a-t-shirt-that-owns-him/

bodysong comment - Senator Ted Cruz is taking a few pages from Trump's playbook -
Get your name out there, in the media. No such thing as bad publicity, concerning
people that were brain-washed by Trump. (Could not escape seeing Trump, during
45's occupation of the Oval office. A constant election campaign. Second page taken
is obsession with media mentions, and searching for them.
/ end bodysong comment

 

[bodysong]

All that matters is that it's a bunch of stuff Republicans can say
that allows them to argue that they're entitled to throw out the
ballots of people who voted for Democrats.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-disturbing-truth-about-the-gops-messy-ballot-audit-in-arizona/

 

[bodysong]

Carolyn B. Maloney ✓
Twitter › RepMaloney

Not once on Jan 6 did Trump call his Sec of Defense or his Attorney General
to try to end the insurrection. And we all know why — he instigated the attack,
and according to reports was cheering it on. Our witnesses confirmed this key
fact today.

9 hours ago

Maloney had tried to frame Wednesday’s hearing as a forum to learn why “security
collapsed in the face of the mob, and reinforcements were delayed for hours as the
Capitol was overrun.” She excoriated the Justice Department and Pentagon for failing,
to date, to produce even “a single piece of paper” to any House committees investigating
why law enforcement was overwhelmed by the approximately 10,000 pro-Trump rioters
who gathered outside the Capitol, and the estimated 800 who stormed the building.

Trump’s Pentagon chief attributes Capitol breach to ‘organized conspiracy’

- Karoun Demirjian
- Devlin Barrett

May 12, 021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...b22bda-b2a5-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html

 

[bodysong]

124 Americans broke their solemn oath to America, for Trump ?

(Get back to me, after the investigation.)

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/11/retired-brass-biden-election-487374

 

[bodysong]

Memory Lane

07/17/2020

Rep. Justin Amash, the Libertarian Michigan congressman who abandoned
the Republican Party after calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment,
appeared to confirm reports Thursday that he would not seek reelection to Congress.
Justin Amash, a Grand Rapids native who represents Michigan’s 3rd Congressional
District, came to national prominence in May 2019, when he became the first
Republican member of Congress to declare that Trump had committed
impeachable offenses.

Two months later, he revealed he was leaving the GOP to become an independent.
Amash was a founding member of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus,
he had emerged as a vocal critic of the president.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/justin-amash-reelection-congress-367183

Justin Amash ✓
Twitter › justinamash

House Republicans have somehow managed to make their leadership team
even more feckless.

6 hours ago

House Republicans are getting exactly what they deserve in Stefanik:
an establishment Republican for the MAGA era. Someone who combines
Cheney’s worst policy views with McCarthy’s ineptitude & opportunism;
singularly devoted to Trump and indifferent to liberty & the Constitution.

3 days ago

The fact that Kevin McCarthy, the House @GOPLeader, stripped Justin Amash
of all committee seats for criticizing Trump, but has worked to protect this person
from consequences (including pretending he doesn’t see it) tells you this is
happening with the support of GOP leadership.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 14, 2021

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) was taken off the House Budget Committee.
Rep. Justin Amash resigned his seat on the House Oversight Committee

 

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Nevada lawmakers under fire for blowing $2,500 on membership
in far-right extremist group

According to The Daily Beast, Lander County, Nevada is under fire for
purchasing a $2,500 lifetime membership for the county in an extremist
group that has ties to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on
January 6.

4-1 vote by its board of commissioners -

Some residents and county officials are angry about the decision.

Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA)

CPSOA has ties to Joe Arpaio, the infamous former Maricopa County sheriff
who kept prisoners in scorching hot desert tent camps and was pardoned by
former President Donald Trump from contempt of court charges stemming
from racial profiling incidents.

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-insurrection-2652998761/

Original source -

The Daily Beast ✓
Twitter › thedailybeast

Whether they like it or not, residents of an entire county are effectively
paying to join an extremist group hyped by alleged participants in the
Jan. 6 riot

26 minutes ago

 

[bodysong]

National sheriffs’ group, opposed to federal laws on guns
and taxes, calls for defiance

April 28, 2016

Local police chiefs and sheriffs typically swear to enforce the laws of their state.
But a group called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association
is intent on strictly enforcing their view of the U.S. Constitution and, according
to a long new piece by the Center for Public Integrity, “its ambition is to
encourage law enforcement officers to defy laws they decide themselves
are illegal.”

At the association’s 2014 convention, dozens of sheriffs signed a declaration
that they would not tolerate any federal agent who attempted to register
firearms, arrest someone or seize property in their counties without
their consent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ral-government-overreach-gains-size-momentum/

Right Wing Watch ✓
Twitter › RightWingWatch

Trump's religious-right supporters are increasingly excited
about Fla Gov. Ron DeSantis. They're praying that he will
"rule in the midst of his enemies."

(link to Right Wing Watch)

1 day ago

 

[bodysong]

Rep. Liz Cheney visited New Hampshire, after the Trump Loyalists
threw a Witch Burning for her.

Before the smoke cleared, they appointed another Republican to take her place.
Hello, Elise, sweetie pie!

Now that Liz Cheney is not around, Gun Nut Pin-Up girl,
Rep. Lauren Boebert has popped up from her hiding hole.
She disgraced herself, during President Biden's speech to
Congress, and not much has been heard from her, until today.

Tweet storm!

Lauren Boebert ✓
Twitter › laurenboebert

America needs a strong GOP that will not buckle & allow the Democrats to do
whatever they want. In 2022, when we take back the House, it’s GAME OVER
for the radical Biden agenda. Donate today so we can STOP the Green New Deal,
HR 1 & more insanity:

(link to WinRed- Trump's favorite cash box)

8 hours ago

(Watch out for those auto-checked boxes, hidden in the fine print.)

 

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Arizona not very pleased with "fraudit' by Trump Loyalists -

@maricopacounty

Maricopa County ✓
Twitter › maricopacounty

Chairman @jacksellers: "As Chairman of this Board, I just want to make it clear
I will not be responding to any more requests from this sham process. Finish what
you're calling an audit and be ready to defend your report in a court of law."

2 hours ago

Maricopa County ✓
Twitter › maricopacounty

We fixed it for you @ArizonaAudit. #RealAuditors
Dont make false accusations defaming public servants.
Turns out, your “auditors” just couldn’t locate the files
we provided.

(link to maricopa.gov)

2 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Devin Nunes’ cow
Twitter › DevinCow

Hay @NatlSecCnslrs I guess you were right to sue the DOJ to see if
they were involved in trying to unmask me. They were trying to unmask
@NunesAlt

(link to Courtlistener)

8 hours ago

Twitter fights Justice Department subpoena over Rep. Nunes parody

- LA Times

Bill Barr's DOJ Secretly Tried to Unmask a Devin Nunes Parody

The Trump administration tried to force Twitter to unmask the user behind a parody account that mocked GOP congressman Devin Nunes.

Mr Trump’s Justice Department served the social media giant with a subpoena on 24 November 2020 demanding the name of the person behind the @NunesAlt account.

They also issued a gag order preventing the company from talking about the request, according to a newly unsealed court filing.

Mr Nunes was a vocal supporter of Mr Trump during his one term in the White House but was often a target of social media mockery.

A federal judge unsealed a motion from Twitter filed in March to quash the subpoena that was issued last November.

It's not about me or this silly account. It's about silencing all of us.

— Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) May 17, 2021

- Independent UK

New York Magazine ✓
Twitter › NYMag

Devin Nunes somehow got William Barr's Justice Department behind
another absurd legal crusade to quash his critics

one hour ago

 

[bodysong]

Perhaps, DC Capitol Police do not like the idea of being erased from history ?

Mediaite ✓
Twitter › Mediaite
'Unconscionable': Capitol Police Officers Hammer Republican Leaders f
or Blocking Riot Commission in Scathing Letter

(link to Mediaite)

39 minutes ago

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

This is going viral before anyone confirms who it is actually from -
and it is signed by anonymous “members” of the Capitol Police,
not by the organization itself or its chief. Caution recommended
!
49 minutes ago

 

[bodysong]

NEWS: The U.S. Capitol Police have issued a statement to members of Congress
expressing “profound disappointment” with McConnell and McCarthy’s positions
on the Jan. 6 commission, citing the “trauma” that officers endured that day.

(pic)

— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) May 19, 2021

To be clear, this is not a statement from the Capitol Police as an organization,
but from members of the USCP. (In other words, anonymous.)

“The brave men and women of the USCP were subjected to hours and hours
of physical trauma which has led to months of mental anguish,” it reads.

They say “it is unconscionable to even think anyone could suggest, we need to
move forward and get over it.”

(via Politico)

https://www.mediaite.com/news/uncon...-blocking-riot-commission-in-scathing-letter/

 

[bodysong]

The unsigned missive was sent to the offices of every member of Congress
hours before the House was set to vote on legislation creating the panel.

A statement released Wednesday on Capitol Police letterhead, said to be authored
by multiple officers on the force, delivered a rare public rebuke of top Republicans
for opposing a proposed bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
that injured scores on their force.

The department distanced itself from the statement, noting that it "has no way of
confirming it was even authored by USCP personnel. The U.S. Capitol Police
does NOT take positions on legislation."

The identity of the statement's author or authors remains unclear. It was distributed
by the office of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), according to an email to House offices
obtained by POLITICO.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/19/capitol-police-riot-commission-489673

 

[bodysong]

From May 23 to 25, the George Floyd Memorial Foundation will hold
a rally at the Hennepin County Government Center

Someone thought they were entitled to punish George Floyd's community
for seeking justice.

MPR News ✓
Twitter › MPRnews

As we mark one year since the killing of George Floyd,
@CathyWurzer brings together @laura_yuen @BrandtMPR
@efrostee in conversation to discuss their experiences covering
the story from the beginning. RSVP now for this Monday discussion:

(link)

2 hours ago

MPR News ✓
Twitter › MPRnews

As Minneapolis @MayorFrey pushes ahead with a public safety proposal
that he says will help keep neighborhoods safe and hold police accountable,
he is reflecting on lessons learned and where the city goes from here.

1 hour ago

 

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Grotesque monster, plays servant to grotesque monster -

Jason Miller, Trump aide, ordered to pay $42K over lawsuit

Trump spokesman Jason Miller was ordered to pay $42,000 to G/O Media
after his $100 million defamation suit was tossed in 2019, when a judge
found that the now-defunct website Splinter had accurately reported the
contents of court documents in his custody battle with former Trump
campaign operative A.J. Delgado.

"In an explosive new court filing, Delgado's legal team alleges that Miller —
prior to their own high-profile extramarital romance — carried out an affair
with a woman he met at an Orlando strip club," the website reported in 2018.
"Additionally, the court documents claim, when the woman found out she was
pregnant, Miller surreptitiously dosed her with an abortion pill without her
knowledge, leading, the woman claims, to the pregnancy's termination and
nearly her death."

https://www.rawstory.com/jason-miller-lawsuit/

Not administered in a reprocustive health clinic with a direct connection
to the local hopital, you say ?

This, from the GOP party that did its best to kill off all access to legal abortions,
reproductive health care, and removed birth control from the hands of women-
Because, according to formerly-Republicans and Ladies That Support Religious
Leaders That Sexually Assault, only rapists can judge if a woman needs birth
control.

OTOH, they are perfectly willing to let a woman die without it, even if she needs
it to save her life.

 

[bodysong]

Today's cartoon -

GOP elephant, that cannot seem to remember

 

[bodysong]

Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies
from blocking political candidates

May 24, 2021

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that aims to punish social media
companies for their moderation decisions, a move that Silicon Valley immediately
criticized and likely sets the stage for potential legal challenges.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

The law creates fines of $250,000 per day for banning candidates for statewide office,
and $25,000 for candidates for local office.

The law also includes provisions to protect people who aren’t running for office,
allowing them to bring lawsuits against the companies if they think they’re being
inconsistent about content decisions.*

*Since it is Trump Loyalist, Ron DeSantis taking this action, it is fairly certain
that DeSantis not defending Democrats from losing their accounts -

To prove this point:

DeSantis signed the bill at an event at Florida International University in Miami,
where he spoke from a lectern with the sign that said “Stop Big Tech Censorship.”
DeSantis was flanked by other Florida Republicans, as well as James O’Keefe,
the founder of Project Veritas -

Twitter earlier this year banned O’Keefe’s account, and he has sued the company for defamation.

James O'Keefe is a liar, a dirty tricks operative for hire , and he has been to jail
because he has no respect for the law, or other people's rights. He is quick to cry
about his rights. Siding with the side that pays him to produce propaganda, he
supports the Far Right Trump Loyalists in their efforts to take rights away from
others. On June 28th, he will be a 37 year old twerp.

 

[bodysong]

Axios ✓
Twitter › axios

JUST IN: Florida became the first state to broadly regulate social media
platforms' moderation of user speech online after Ron DeSantis signed
a law fining social media services that permanently ban candidates running
for office in the state

(link)

2 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Maybe, there is film footage on C-Span ?

Christine Wormuth is now the new female Secretary of the Army.
(The Army’s top civilian leader.)

Seems to have been some hiccups, during the process-

The Senate voted in favor of Wormuth for the position Thursday after
a procedural snafu late Wednesday night caused her original confirmation
vote to be reversed.

A Senate Armed Services Committee aide said there was a “mix-up” on the floor
that forced Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to undo her confirmation,
which occurred just hours before by unanimous consent.

Wormuth will replace acting Army Secretary John Whitley, who has been in the position
since Jan. 20, at a busy time for the service, which plans to release its budget request for
fiscal year 2022 on Friday.

Kathleen Hicks was confirmed in February by the Senate as the first woman to serve
as deputy defense secretary.

https://www.stripes.com/Branches/Ar...d-as-first-female-Army-secretary-1593559.html

 

[bodysong]

Christine Wormuth's confirmation had to wait-
Sen. Kevin Cramer (D-N.D.) had a side quest.

The Senate's about-face Wednesday night stemmed from a procedural hold
Sen. Kevin Cramer (D-N.D.) placed on the nomination — a parliamentary
tactic that allows a senator to slow down a nominee — over an issue unrelated
to Wormuth. Cramer said the Senate mistakenly approved her nomination
before he had removed the hold, requiring leadership to backtrack.

"I had a hold on her. I think you probably all suspected that," Cramer told reporters
Thursday. "They accidentally confirmed her by [unanimous consent] and then they
unconfirmed her ... because I hadn't lifted my hold. But I did today. So that's what
happened last night."

Cramer, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, held up Wormuth's
confirmation to force the Army to solve an issue involving an Army major who
had been underpaid for 10 months.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/27/senate-confirm-army-secretary-christine-wormuth-491150

"In deference to her word and the work done so far, I released the hold," Cramer said
of Hicks.

How many are included in a tranche ? ( More side quests)

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment -

There are tiny, out of the way hamlets sprinkled in quiet corners
of America that have quietly gone un-noticed. Attention is called
to them when some developer starts seeing dollar signs. "We are
still living here," the residents say. So quiet, that they have been
erased from the maps. After the massacre and destruction of a
prosperous minority community, many learned caution, and to
not call attention to themselves. /end bodysong comment

Tulsa's Mayor fails as Tiffany Cross and her panel make economic & moral
cases for reparations.

May 29, 2021

Tiffany Cross was on Tulsa’s former black subdivision in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
known as Black Wall Street. It was a prosperous area where the black citizens
were massacred and their blocks bombed and burnt down.

Tulsa’s Mayor G. T. Bynum said that he is not thinking about reparation
because it would divide the city.

(article from KTUL, a OK based station and a ABC Television affiliate
owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, a Trump cheerleader)

https://ktul.com/news/local/mayor-says-reparations-would-divide-the-city-focuses-on-development

The Tulsa massacre took place May 31 and June 1, 1921

After the massacre, not one black person owns the land now.

A commission has raised 30 million dollars in the name of the massacre,
not one dollar has been awarded to any of the descendants.

- Daily Kos

(It has been documented that the rioters had stolen goods and materials
from Greenwood. How many family antiques in Oklahoma are stolen
objects ?)

What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed

- The New York Times

 

[bodysong]

June 1, 2021

I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby
proclaim June 2021 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride
Month. I call upon the people of the United States to recognize the achievements of the
LGBTQ+ community, to celebrate the great diversity of the American people, and to
wave their flags of pride high.

https://www.advocate.com/pride/2021...e-proclamation-highlights-anti-trans-violence

What is the response from Evangelicals ? MAGA Country ? TrumpLand ?

A new Republican-backed bill aims to restore Trump’s ban on Pride flags
at US embassies, as well as Black Lives Matter and any other “political”
flags.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/...ripes-act-pride-blm-flag-embassies-trump-ban/

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off Pride Month by signing an anti-trans bill
into law — the first explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ law in the state in more than a decade

https://www.advocate.com/transgende...ron-desantis-signs-anti-trans-bill-time-pride

Make it clear, Trans are served here, or serve jail time and pay a fine- Rep. Tim Rudd (R)

Anti-trans bill HB 1182 was signed into law by Republican governor Bill Lee on
17 May, and the law went into effect on Tuesday (1 June 2021)

It requires any public or private business or entity that “operates a building or
facility open to the general public” to “post notice” that it allows a “member of
either biological sex to use any public restroom.”

The sign must read that the facility “maintains a policy of allowing the use
of restrooms by either biological sex, regardless of the designation on the
restroom”.

Businesses and entities will have 30 days to post the correct sign. If they do not
post the sign, then the business could be subject to up to six months in jail and
fines of up to $500.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/06/...see-break-anti-trans-bathroom-bill-jail-fine/

Phantom Alternate Universe Replica VS United States of America that exists in reality -

Trump banned LBTQ flags at embassies.

Do not hear much from Log Cabin Republicans, lately, since they have praised every
Anti- LGBTQ action that Trump has taken. They took the money, and hid in a shadow
of the GOP Big Tent. Just like the KKK.

@LogCabinGOP

 

[bodysong]

Republican National Committee Head Chair, Ronna McDaniel
thinks that minority communities should thank formerly-Republicans
for Juneteeth becoming a federal holiday.

@GOPChairwoman But YOU'RE not an American. You're a Trump loyalist.
The party that LOST their shit over traitor confederate statues being torn down,
also wants to celebrate Juneteenth?

— Justice MaidenX (@Justice MaidenX) 1624107916.0

 

[bodysong]

There goes Conan O’Brien. He was not political.
Where is he going ?

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009587267/conan-obrien-ends-tbs-show-leaves-late-night

 

[pecksniff]

"wave their flags of pride high" just ain't as kewl as "Let your freak flag fly!"